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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Morphis to Long and Norwood

June 1874 · ODB 42/400

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale of goods or livestock
Date
June 1874
From
Samuel Morphis
To
Long; Norwood
Also conveyed
my interest in this years growing crop of cotton and corn being hald of eleven acres growing cotton and 5.5 acres of growing corn on land of Jones Watson near W boundary of Chapel Hill, adj Solomon Pool, Sam Barbee Sr and 4.5 acres of corn on land of Nancy Potts about 1.5 miles N of town
Citation
ODB 42/400
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Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 5.5 and 4.5 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 42 (look for ODB 42/400). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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